The Black Arrow

Originally published serially in 1883 and then as a book in 1888, Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Black Arrow” is a thrilling and fascinating tale set during the fifteenth-century War of the Roses. Stevenson, a Scottish novelist, poet and essayist, greatly influenced authors such as Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, and J. M. Barrie. His most famous works include “Treasure Island”, also published in 1883, and “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, published in 1886. “The Black Arrow”...